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...then again, in your review of Gdal Staleski's book [TIME, April 9, p 32] you just couldn't resist the temptation to try to slam the Jews. You mention a list of Jewish composers among them Ravel, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, and Bloch. Very fine and good. But you clever editors must have your say. A little note does the trick! So you lightly dismiss the Jewish composers with "But Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Tschaikowsky, etc., etc., vere Gentiles." Your entire attitude is nothing short of insulting to the intelligence of your readers. It is 100% befitting vacuocaputs...
...History of "Slam, Dutch East Indies and Indo China up to 1800," Professor Hornbeck, Harvard...
...click-clack ("snoogins") to cry out "Deliver!" on a triple slam...
...everyone whom the New Yorker criticized sued the magazine it would be blessed with untold press notices and hounded with several hundred warrants. Most metropolitan actors and authors, and even some metropolitan architects, consider one slam in the New Yorker worth two favorable notices in less fashionable journals, for standards of criticism vary and what brings comment from Dorothy Parker and her playmates usually becomes the season's rage. Mr. Severance should not take offence--he should not even take $500,000. If he were to go to the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty Fourth Street tomorrow, he would...
...Yeah, we got a letter from the Princetonian," he said, "but we haven't got any cigars yet. You're from Harvard ain't ya? Well I don't wancha to go and publish any slam at Princeton. We're going ta get the cigars all right, six boxes of 'em, Corona Belvederes. Here, read the letter." He handed the communication to the reporter...